Overton Brooks Research Corporation Medi

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
721196625
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Shreveport, LA, USA
Phone
3189905155
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$149,430
Expenses
$32,657
Assets
$335,514
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN T GLEASON LT COL RETIRED (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • RICHARD L CROCKETT (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • PHILIP HADDAD MD (DIRECTOR)
  • PATRICK MCGAULY MD (DIRECTOR)
  • KAREN JOHNSON PHD (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The sole purpose of the corporation is to support and facilitate medical research activities of its members in conjunction with the overton brooks veterans affair medical center.

What it reported doing in 2024

National institutes of health (nih) study 2016-05 all of us with dr. Philips haddad as principal investigator.(1) the program invites people in the USA to help build diverse health database. At this va, the goal is 40 enrollees monthly, a blood draw is required. (2) the goal is to accelerate medical research breakthroughs by delivering one of the largest biomedical datasets to researchers with one million or more enrolled. (3) it may take years to understand how a variable is linked to a disease or treatment, but by creating a database of this size/scope, nih hopes to speed up this process.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 2
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 37
  • Sustainability: 90
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0.9%; rating input score 1
  • Program expense ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 4
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 78.1%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.27; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0.9% of revenue deployed · 4.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.